The 2025 Women’s World Cup is no longer just a contest of bat and ball. It has turned into a showcase of how far women’s cricket has travelled, and how far it can still go. What we are watching is a slow, powerful shift taking shape. Across South Asia, young women raised far from cricket’s traditional heartlands have stepped onto the game’s grandest stage and looked as though they have always belonged there.

Their journeys begin in small homes with borrowed bats and second-hand shoes. Each of them, Amanjot Kaur , Marufa Akter, Kranti Goud, and Fatima Sana , has fought through circumstances that might have ended another player’s story. What they have done here is not just about numbers or records. It shows that talent finds its own path, and that grit lasts longer than privilege.

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